"We are starting to see some storm activity that we are getting excited about," said BWWT Commissioner Peter Mel, of Santa Cruz, in a statement Wednesday. "With only a couple of weeks left in the waiting period these are positive times and it would be great to finish the Southern Hemisphere leg with a bang."

Surfline, the official forecaster for the 2014-15 BWWT season, is reporting that conditions look promising for either Monday or Tuesday, thanks to a fetch that will pull together over the next few days.

While the swell doesn't look huge at this time, it does at least look to be on the threshold of minimum-run requirements, the website reported Wednesday.

"If the storm behaves as forecast in the next few days, we would see an 11- to 12-foot deepwater swell peak during the overnight hours from Monday to Tuesday. The largest waves would be found late Monday and Tuesday morning, with an easing trend through Tuesday. Wave face sizes would be in the 20- to plus-25-foot range and possibly pushing toward 30-foot faces on the max sets (during) Monday sunset and Tuesday early," the site reported.

Tashnick and Dollar took second and third, respectively, at the BWWT's season-opening event at Pico Alto in Peru on July 3. Hawaiian wildcard Makua Rothman won the event.